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About the heavy ecological impact of meat




by Lietseu » 26/08/08, 15:14

About the heavy ecological impact of the meat you eat ...


Did you know that meat production is today: 18% of total greenhouse gas emissions;
9% of total CO2 emissions;
37% of total methane emissions;
65% of total emissions of nitrogen dioxide (notably from the degradation of manure and slurry).
The methane released by ruminants is a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide and nitrogen hemioxide is clearly involved in the problems of acid rain and the depletion of the ozone layer. Another factor in energy consumption and pollution: transport. The concentration of livestock on large farms, sometimes far from agricultural areas that can provide food and absorb part of their waste (slurry, liquid manure to amend the land) leads to long and frequent displacements.
Without counting the transport of imported meat. Why buy Argentine beef when it is not produced here? By making meat make thousands of kilometers, it adds to its environmental "weight".

The production of 1 kilo of beef ...
Occupies an agricultural area that can yield up to 160 kg of potatoes.
Causes the emission of greenhouse gases equivalent to 60 km by car.
Consume the equivalent of 7 l of petrol.
Requires the use of 15.000 l of water (equivalent to one shower per day / per year).
Has the same environmental weight as 10 kilos of vegetables ...



Extraordinary too: 90% of the world's soy production is used to feed livestock!
If the Chinese were to eat as much meat as the Westerners, their farms would absorb half of the world's cereal production.
In Europe, around 75% of agricultural production is devoted to animal feed, and this is not enough since we still import massively to feed livestock.

Livestock is one of the biggest sources of water pollutants according to the FAO. in question, the manure and slurry, as well as the synthetic fertilizers and pesticides used for the forage culture. The whole leads to significant pollution of the soil, but also of runoff and groundwater by nitrates and other phosphates ...

According to the FAO, no less than 190 breeds of food-producing animals have already disappeared.

In our country, the 70s saw traditional family farms concentrate and industrialize. Gigantic mergers and investments have proved necessary to keep pace with the fall and the prices imposed, leaving thousands of farmers and breeders on the sidelines.
And the demand for meat from Western countries also has an impact on the quality of life of people in developing countries, where fodder crops for export are favored at the expense of crops for food for local populations.

In intensive farming, living conditions are still too often unsuitable: lack of space, illness and injury, mutilation (example: cut poultry bee, neutered animals ...), anxiety and chronic stress, overweight (certain breeds poultry, for example, chosen for their propensity to make meat on the breast are fattened in such a way that they no longer stand on their legs) etc. The worst-off are pigs and poultry.





For the record, FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
http://www.sommetjohannesburg.org/insti ... e-fao.html
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by Christophe » 26/08/08, 15:17

I saw an old movie recently (the old man and the child) where Michel Simon, in the role of a vegetarian, treated the meat eaters of ... cannibal ...

Come to think of it, it was not far from the truth ...by eating too much meat today we can cannibalize future generations !!

Let's eat more grain! It's much better for your health too!

https://www.econologie.com/viande-co2-et ... -3230.html
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by Lietseu » 26/08/08, 15:26

Christophe wrote:I saw an old movie recently (the old man and the child) where Michel Simon, in the role of a vegetarian, treated the meat eaters of ... cannibal ...

Come to think of it, it was not far from the truth ...by eating too much meat today we can cannibalize future generations !!

Let's eat more grain! It's much better for your health too!

https://www.econologie.com/viande-co2-et ... -3230.html


Personally, meat, I like that ... but I don't eat it every day : Mrgreen:
I tend to prefer vegetables and cereals :P

Especially since I found this info!

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by Christophe » 26/08/08, 15:28

Well 2 to 3 times a week should be enough ... and better for your health ...

Does ham count? :)
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by jonule » 26/08/08, 15:33

Lietseu wrote:Did you know that meat production is today: 18% of total greenhouse gas emissions;
9% of total CO2 emissions;
37% of total methane emissions;
65% of total emissions of nitrogen dioxide (notably from the degradation of manure and slurry).
The methane released by ruminants is a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide and nitrogen hemioxide is clearly involved in the problems of acid rain and the depletion of the ozone layer.


methane is 23 times worse than CO2 over 100 years, but over 20 years, it is 62 times worse.
the prehistoric way to treat feces is to put straw on it, then make heaps of it, all the methane and nitrogen dioxide are thus released into the atmosphere, losing this precious energy. once nitrogenous, this large pile is spread on the field at the end of the season because it takes a long time.

in biogas cogeneration, we put the cows on gratings, the droppings fall, we clean them with water, everything happens in the biodigester, the gas is separated quickly by anaerobic, there remains a nitrogenous fertilizer (nitrogen dioxide) agriculture: directly, much faster than waiting all season for gas to go ...


it is therefore a double way of doing prehistoric ...
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by Christophe » 26/08/08, 15:36

Speaking of prehistory and methane!

What if it was their own PETS that killed dinosaurs? : Mrgreen: : Mrgreen:
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by jonule » 26/08/08, 15:44

it doesn't fly high but you still hover! :? : Lol:
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